Donna Kelce will watch her sons play against each other in a Super Bowl. Stacie Nola has some advice.

Stacie Nola doesn’t know much about football. She wouldn’t be able to tell you what the pocket is, or what a tailback does, or which teams are playing in this year’s Super Bowl. But she does possess a valuable piece of insight, one that could be useful to one family in particular as we edge closer to Feb. 12.

A few months ago, her sons made MLB postseason history as the first brothers to face off as a hitter and a pitcher in a playoff game. Nola and her husband, A.J., described it as a “stressful day.” Their youngest son, Aaron, was having a tough outing for the Phillies. The right-handed starter allowed six earned runs on seven hits in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, and one of those earned runs was driven in by his own brother, Austin, who roped a line-drive single to right field to help the Padres climb back from a 4-0 deficit.

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Aaron earned the loss, but he won the long game. A few days later, the Phillies punched their ticket to the World Series with a 4-3 win over the Padres in Game 5. While one brother gleefully sprayed champagne at his teammates in the Phillies’ clubhouse, the other packed his bags for a long offseason.

This is not the type of scenario that is covered in a parenting book, and A.J. and Stacie went about it in different ways. A.J. did in-game interviews, while Stacie turned them down. A.J tried to show as little emotion as possible, while Stacie, aware that the cameras could catch her at any moment, chose to cheer her sons on.

“Austin just got a hit,” she told her husband halfway through Game 2. “You look mad. You have to smile!”

“I just want to support them internally, in my own way,” A.J. responded.

Donna Kelce, mother of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and Eagles center Jason Kelce, will find herself in a similar situation on Feb. 12. As the opening kickoff soars through the air, Donna will become the first mother to have two sons play against each other in a Super Bowl.

Stacie doesn’t envy her.

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“I couldn’t eat before the NLCS,” she said. “If my sons were playing against each other in the World Series, I might have vomited.”

Unlike Nola, Kelce has seen each of her sons win a Super Bowl. And unlike Austin and Aaron, Travis and Jason won’t face each other on the field, because they’re both offensive players. But that doesn’t mean the game will be easy on their mother.

“It’s a major milestone,” Stacie said. “For us, it was about getting to a World Series. For them, it’s playing in a Super Bowl. This is what they work so hard for and you’re happy for both of them. But you know that one son is going to be upset. How do you console that one, while still being happy for the other? It’s hard.

“Somebody has got to lose. And you don’t want either of your kids to lose.”

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Regardless of how Super Bowl LVII plays out, Stacie said Donna should anticipate a full spectrum of emotions. After the final out was recorded in Game 5 of the NLCS, Stacie and A.J. went down to the field. They congratulated Aaron, and then let him celebrate with his friends. A few minutes later, they found Austin in the visiting clubhouse.

They didn’t say much. They just hugged him and cried, and sent him on the team bus back to the hotel.

“Once it was over, I was like ‘Thank you, Jesus,’ ” Stacie said. “Even though it’s a win-win, as a parent, it still tears at your heart.”

Stacie has nothing against football; she’s just more interested in baseball, probably because she has watched her sons play it for the last 20 or so years. But now she said she might tune into the Super Bowl as a show of support for Donna.

“There are two brothers in it, so maybe I’ll watch it,” she said. “I just hope for her sake that they don’t have to tackle each other.”

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